The Chord Wheel User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience31.2% of reviews
Neutral10.8% of reviews
Negative experience58.1% of reviews

~ Based on 93 written reviews from the US App Store.

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The Chord Wheel appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for The Chord Wheel is 73/100.

Based on 73 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Can’t believe Apple hasn’t removed. Waste!

thought I’d buy the app instead of replacing the paperback. Don’t make same mistake. App is 4 years old and the pics aren’t even from the actual app. Waste of 6 bucks.

Great app - Simple and quick

Love this app. It’s a very simple and quick way for someone who is not very clued up on music theory.

Great for just figuring out what chords belong to what key. I use it all the time as a beginner musician.

It’s works great on both IPhone and IPad.

I am not sure what others are saying about the screen to small for iPad. You just click the bottom right corner to bring it to full screen.
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Nice but a few bum guitar chords

The wheel is a helpful layout for writing simple major/minor progressions. Piano sounds are bold and in tune, and sustain for two good legato whole notes while you consider the next chord. However, some of the guitar chords are well out of tune, and one or two of the diminished 7ths are downright wrong on guitar. But the majority are OK. I stick with the piano.

This would be excellent tool if there was a simple way to toggle any chord to and from its 7th, 6th, sus4, or 2nd/9th — or maybe add the note on the keyboard (which in inactive and purely decorative). But overall the wheel is a nice idea for establishing harmonic context.
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Screen too small on iPad

This is an excellent app. It even plays the chords when you tap on them. Unfortunately on iPad the image is small and, for those of us with poor sight, is difficult to read. Enlarging the screen on iPad would make this a killer app.

Could be a lot better.

The app needs a lot more development to be worth the money. You can't adjust basic things like the screen orientation that s permanently stuck on portrait mode. Also would be nice to be able to change instruments instead of only having piano and guitar. If you're looking for something more useful for reference, writing and practicing I'd say but the Tonaly app.
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Esta aplicación no sirve

Esta aplicación esta muy simple no da la opción de más instrumentos se supone que debería darla por lo que dice estoy i conforme y trate de regresarla y no te da la opción ahora tengo que tenerla y no la quiero esta apliciom apesta !

Pretty Good Chord Wheel App

This app is pretty good. It is rather expensive for what you get though, and it is always upside down on my iPad. Also, there is something wrong with the C chord, as it is strummed too slow on the guitar. I also have The Chord Wheel as a printed book, and there is more of an explanation of its use in the printed book, however, the book has no sound. The sound inclusion in the app makes it more useful, and it is less than half the price of the book, and I can use it on my iPod, iPad mini, or iPad Pro. So, all in all, it’s pretty good, but there is room for improvement.
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Works on my iPhone 6s+

Looks like the developers fixed the issue some users were having. The app works fine on my iPhone 6s+. Great tool overall.

Clear easy to use interface.

Chord information distilled into a simple to use graphical format.

Chord numberings not visible on the iPad app

Please help

Great chord wheel

I love this and it’s helped me write creative chord progressions. Recommended for all musicians and songwriters. Would be nice if you could add the modes like that dial a note circle of fifths turn thingy on amazon.

Not great

Would be good to have more features, this is literally just the chord wheel. The app doesn’t display full screen properly on iPad

Great app

Neat training aid that helps me transpose songs on the go. Handy to have as an app. Save me tremendous time transposing songs for band.

Awesome, but...

This is a great and simple-to-use app.

My only complaints are the lack of a proper options page, e.g. font resizing for the explanation of the chord wheel, toggling the sound, etc.

No complaints otherwise. The chord wheel itself is fantastic.

Great app

I'm so excited to see this app! For years I thought it should be easy to make an intuitive chord wheel app but couldn't find one that was easy to use and display all of the info I was looking for. The only thing it's missing is the note numbers in the scale. A lot of chord wheels online show a small Roman numeral to represent the chord number under the letter. That addition would make this a 5 star app.

Edit:
Go through the tutorial. You can zoom into the key signature
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Wheely Good

After getting to grips with the chord wheel I am now writing chart topping hits for Ned Sheeran, Duo Lipo, Traynor Swift and Leeds based indie pop sensation Defender.

I’m a pretty big deal

Please Enable Rotate to Portrait Mode

I bought the book and will find the app useful as well. I’m happy that the issue with the sound has been fixed but would like to be able to use the app in portrait mode. Landscape feels clunky and using the app in portrait wouldn’t mean the wheel is obstructed in any way. It’s just a circle. But the device you’re using would be more comfortable in hand.
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fantastic tool!!

thank you for this great app

Thank you

I love trying out different progressions. Thanks for including secondary dominant.
Really great app to understand music.

No Sound!

I just paid $9.99NZD which is expensive for an iPhone app that has a bug in it. This should have been better tested. Can't fault the visuals and the rotating feature of the circle of 5ths but there is no sound when you tap the chords. I'm on iPhone 6s Plus iOS 10.2.1. Please fix this bug. I need to hear the chords please.
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